Month: February 2022

Litter Picking Newcomen Road

Thank you to the 22 litter heroes who took part in our Two Hour Tidy Up in and around a very sunny Newcomen Road Community Garden this morning. Together we picked 49 bags full of litter, a chair, a shopping trolley, three child car seats, a tyre and a mattress!

Thank you to Rachel and Tim, Gwen and TK, Pretty and Victor, Trina and Peter, Sue, Gill and Bob, Jess, Judy, Niall and Wayan, John and Trisha, Freddie and Georgina, Emma, Billy and Jonathan. Well done all!

We set up with our Recycling Station at 9:30 in the Community Garden on Newcomen Road, for litter picking between 10 and 12. This was the first time we have litter picked this area. Members of Wellie Wombles and Wellingborough Eco Group also disappeared off in all directions also litter picking the surrounding streets!

Coffee and tea was served up by Co-op Member Pioneer Wellingborough for #FairtradeFortnight, and Georgina brought chocolate cake from Food Sharers which was enjoyed by all.

Next month’s Two Hour Tidy Up will be on Saturday 26th March from 10 until 12 in the Town Centre for The Great British Spring Clean. Members of North Northants Council and Wellingborough Town Council will be joining us, we hope you will too.

Litter Pick Community Gardens

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on this Saturday (26th February) at Newcomen Road Community Gardens. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 at the Community Gardens which are at the Vivian Road end of Newcomen Road, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be litter picking the gardens and the nearby streets.

Join us for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up!

This location has been chosen by one of our Wellie Wombles. As a group we have not tidied up this area before, and unfortunately there’s a lot to do. We have decided to do these gardens at this time of year, because we will not be disturbing the plants.

To help us and keep us safe at this and future litter picks, Wellingborough Eco Group have purchased some litter pickers, hi-vis vests and safety equipment including road signs. Wellingborough Norse are also lending us some equipment, so everything is provided but please bring your own gloves if you can.

Free Fair Trade tea and Coffee available (donated by Co-op). Social distancing is a must, hand sanitiser will be available, please do not come if you have covid-19 symptoms, but apart from that, ALL WELCOME!

New Food Sharers

Love food, hate waste, be a Food Sharer!

Food Sharers is a new sharing community from Wellingborough Eco Group that are focused on saving good food from going in the bin, and sharing food with people that want it. We are a food reuse project that is open to anyone, and something that works for all ‘Food Sharers’ in the town that mutually benefits all organisations; and of course, benefitting people and planet too.

We share food on Tuesday afternoons in Glamis Hall’s Community Room between 2:00 and 6:00, with surplus food from Food Sharers, retailers, Redeem Funds and Glamis Hall. We have lots of fresh fruit and veg, bread and other treats plus, the kettle’s on too if you fancy a coffee or tea! Your donations will also be shared with sharers!

Food Sharers will evolve into a community fridge and food reuse café and it will include a food buying club for people to buy food in bulk from wholesalers. Wellingborough Eco Group and ‘Food Sharers’ are not, nor will ever be a food bank. Food Sharers is simply a food reuse project open to everyone.

Be a Food Sharer, share on Facebook at facebook.com/groups/foodsharer and at Glamis Hall’s Community Room, Tuesdays 2-6. Love food, hate waste, be a Food Sharer!

New Swap Shop

We are relaunching Wellingborough Swap Shop at Glamis Hall‘s Indoor Car Boot Sale tomorrow! And it’s more than a lick of paint; we’re taking the food out of our Swap Shop events to concentrate on saving items that otherwise might end up in landfill.

We’re changing the way it works too, to make it simpler for everyone. All items will now be available for swaps or a small donation to the group. Tomorrow’s stall at Glamis Hall will be a ‘bring and buy sale’. You can bring something and swap it for something else or you can buy something on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis with a donation to the group.

All donations will be be split 50/50 between Wellingborough Eco Group and the venue, Glamis Hall. Donations received by Wellingborough Eco Group will go towards our other projects, including a new food project that we’re launching on Monday…

The Wellingborough Swap Shop Facebook group will be run in the same way, with lots of new items going to be added by admins daily from various businesses locally. New Swap Shops will also take place every Tuesday afternoon 2-6 in Glamis Hall’s Community Room, which will be a collection point for items from the Facebook group too.

So, pop along, grab a bargain or swap with us, save items from landfill and support the other stalls at the Indoor Car Boot Sale. See you there!

https://wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/swap-shop

Repair Cafe This Saturday

Wellingborough Eco Group and Glamis Hall are hosting the Repair Café at the Indoor Car Boot Sale, 9 -12 tomorrow Saturday 12th February (on every 2nd Saturday morning of the month)

Repair Cafes are community events that match people who need stuff fixed with people who like fixing things. Repair Cafes are completely non-commercial. There are no promises and no guarantees, but if something can be saved the repairers will give it their best efforts. Repairers are always keen to teach you how to do the repair – or at least have you watch while they do it.

There is no charge for entry or repair but donations are gratefully received and help pay for costs. You can basically bring anything you can carry that will not make a mess in the venue. Whatever it is, it might not even be broken – just dirty, and you don’t know how to clean it without damaging it – or you can’t work out how to use it without the manual – bring it along!

Find out more at https://wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/repair-cafe/ or join our Repair Club on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/repairclub